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UNITED STATES PATENT @Errea EMIL MLLER, OF NEWv YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,525, dated June12,1866.

To "i tzr/0m it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL MLLER, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have in- I"ed a new and useful Improvement in PhotographicApparatuses; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, making a part of this speciiication, in which- Figure lisaperspective view of my improved photographic apparatus; Fig. 2, ahorizontal yflew of the object-holding apparatus, Fig. 3, a side viewthereof 5 Fi g. 4, a vertical view thereof after the same is turnedhorizontally in a right angle toward the position shown as occupied inFig. 3.

The same letters of reference mark the same parts in all these figures.y

I deem it proper to state that, Letters Patent No. 25,276 having beengranted to John Henry Pein for a new and useful method of photographingon uneven surfaces, I deem my present invention an improvement on theapparatus for photographing on uneven surfaces therein described, andespecially on that part thereof which is denominated therein aspanholder,77 and I refer to the specification of said patent for a moreparticular description of the general construction of the photographicapparatus employed by me.

The nature of my invention consists in an improvement in thephotographic apparatus described in the speciiication of Letters PatentNo. 25,276, whereby the pan-holder therein described is superseded by anobject-holding apparatus, by the aid of which the position of the objecton which the photographic picture is to be produced admits of an easierand more perfect adjustment.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to de scribe its construction and operation.

In-the annexed drawings,A B C D represent the photographic apparatus forproducing pictures on vases or other irregular-shaped objects.

E represents the vase or other irregularshaped object on which thepicture is to be taken.

F is a vertical. pin fastened on its lower end to the photographicapparatus. G is a hollow cylinder movin g vertically or horizontally onthe said pin with a screw, H, by means of which the same may be fastenedto the said pin in any desired position. On the other side of saidcylinder the object-holding apparatus J K L M is attached to saidcylinder.

J is the bed or base of said object-holding apparatus, which is iixed tothe cylinder G, said base being provided with two horizontal squarerails, N N.

K is the sliding plate containing two corresponding grooves fitting oversaid rails.

O O' represent two upright plates, one on each side of the slidingplate, to which upright plates the upper movable plate, L, is attachedby means of two horizontal pins, a a, on which the said upper plateturns. In order tion, there is on one side of the same a slottedupright, M, attached to the lower plate, K, through the slot of which ascrew, p, passes into the upper plate, L, and to which it may then befastened in any desired position. The movable plate L contains twohorizontal fiat rails, R and R', fastened to said plate by two screws, cand c', so as to admit of a rotation of said iiat rails.

cisapin passing through holes of both of said rails into the platebelow. rIhese flat rails are so constructed as to form an angle of lessthan ninety degrees. When the pin c is taken out the two flat rails maybe turned on their respective screws c and o as pivots until they forman angle on the opposite side, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig.2, where they may be again fastened by the insertion of the pin at theangle. These two flat rails are so constructed on theirinnerlinesforming the angle that they overlap, thus forming a recess wherein thebase of a vase or other object may be placed and held securely.

This improved vase-holder is used in the following manner: First theheight of the same is fixed by means of the screw H; then the vase isinserted between the angle formed by the at rails 5 then the holder ismoved horizontally onthe pin F in the desired position; then thedistance between the vase and the photographic camera is more perfectlyadjusted by sliding the holder on the rails NN 5 then the inclinedposition required for the vase or other object is attained by turning'the upper plate, L, on the pivot c until the vase, &c.,

to fasten this upper plate in any desired posii have the required angie,when the same isi fixed in that position by means of the screw P 5 andthen the picture may be taken as described in said Letters Patent No.25,276.

It will be seen that the object-holding apparatus herein described is asubstitute for the pan-holder in said former patent described,experience having` shown that the said pan- -hoidcr is not sufficient toretain the Vase or other object in the exact position required.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States,is-

rlhe apparatus for holding Vases or other uneven objects for the purposeof photographing thereon, substantially as hereinbefore described.

E. MULLER. Witnesses:

Gris. WEHLE, H. WEHLE.

